United States v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
751 F.3d 846 · 2014
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district ·
Relationships
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 841 (§ 401 of the Controlled Substances Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1291
Relies on Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc. · Florida v. Royer · Kumho Tire Company, Ltd., et al. v. Patrick Carmichael, Etc., et al. · United States v. Prieskorn · 133 S. Ct. 714 - Smith v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“conclusions are not the product of his personal law enforcement knowledge and experience — he did not gather the information about these prayers and beliefs through, surveillance, wiretaps, or even interviews of persons involved in this type of drug trafficking. Instead, Marshal Almonte calls upon his own self-study of the “iconography of the Mexican drug underworld,” his observations of such, icons in narcotics cases, his “four or five” trips to Mexico, and his self-published materials and'training seminars on-the subjeet.[ 12 ] [T]he absence of any explanation about how “visit[ing] several shrines” or “eompil[ing] several cases” leads Almonte to the conclusions he reached in this case. Wé are forced to conclude that Almonte’s “opinion evidence [was] connected to existing data only by the ipse dixit of the expert.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“relevant reliability concerns may focus upon personal knowledge or experience”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This court has repeatedly approved of law enforcement officials testifying as experts on the modus operandi of drug dealers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.